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All images used on this blog are either uncopyrighted or created by me. 1. The tomato timer image used in my article "Procrastination and the Pomodoro Technique" is uncopyrighted as it is a shuttershock image. 2. All images of graphs were created by me using Google Sheets. 3. The survey advertisement picture was auto-created by the websitee Swap Survey  specifically for my use.

Procrastination and the Pomodoro Technique

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On the MIT Inspire website, it clearly states that this blog must "Discuss any challenges you have encountered and if applicable, how you surmounted them."  Perhaps the biggest and most frustrating challenge I have encountered is not Writer's Block, but rather (as you may have guessed from the title of this blog post) is procrastination. Procrastination is a matter of self-control and motivation. Sometimes you can be very motivated to complete a task, but the self-control isn't there, or vice versa. This issue of procrastination in apparent in all sorts of jobs, in all sorts of people. In the most basic terms, procrastination is when you push off something that's unpleasant or difficult to do in exchange for doing something easier and perhaps more fun. For example, a majority of kids rather go ride their bike or play Nintendo than finish their homework. Now that you know the issue, you must be wondering how I "surmounted" it. Quite frankly, I haven...